will be remembered that the construction of this railway met with an energetic opposition on the side of the Soviet administration of [the Chinese Eastern Railway, who feared that thie new line, which) [would form part of the feeder system of the South Manchuria Railway, /would detract a considerable amount, of freight in this way enabling the South Manchuria Railway to bent pressure on the Chinese Eastern Railway in tariff questions.
Later it became known that extension of this line was planned from its terminal station Augachi to the town of Tsitsihar (capital of the Heilungkiang Province) which is situated some 20 miles aside of the Chinese Eastern Railway and is connected with it by a small-gauge railway. As this extension in its jeourse would have to cross the Chinese Eastern Railway's track this led to a heated controversy between the Soviets and the Chinese. The settlement of this question was Postponed by the recent flood whick interrupted traffic and delayed the handing over of the railway to the Chinese authorities, but it would seem that the Chinese are firmly re: solved not to tolerate any outside influence with their railway construction plans in Manchuria, The Ssupingkai—Teonan—Twitsihar Railway system c, vers a most fertile region which is now being extensively colonized and for the year ending on March 30 1926, its total freight traffic reached 493, 604 tons, 920,798 tone being exports to the Sovth Manchuria Ri way and 162,897 tons imports from It is interesting to note that the traffic returns of this new railway which is only some three years have outgrown those of the Kirin—Changehun Railway which was completed in 1913. These figures hold promise of great future develop-no anti-foreignism was encountered Jcoming down the river. At Chung-the extent of disturbances while they ithe extent of disturbances while were there, and at one place, in Seechuan, a small village named Kai Shih about 60 1 from Chungking, soldiers in an inn where the missionaries stopped manifested slight antiforeign feeling, which however was entirely dissipated by the missionaries's small " children who won them over through eating With Chinese chopsticks and speaking Chinese. The soldiers returned later on inthe evening with fruit for the foreign children who are generally able to put Chinese in a jooed humour. Near the same place jo little trouble was experienced on board the train where the missionaries were told that they could not trave? as they were Japanese ud Japanese had just bombarded wanhsien. Not attempting to coreet their historical facts, the party explained that they were not [Japanese but British and were allowed te travel in peace.
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